Mind Quotes
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.George Santayana
Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.George Santayana
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by - And - By. Never mind - The uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.Marie Dressle
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.Calvin Coolidge
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.Claude Bernard (1813 - 78)
A contented mind is the best source for trouble.Titus Maccius Plautus
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.A. E. Houseman
We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.Erich Fromm
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.Giuseppe Mazzini
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead? ".
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.William A. Orton
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.Joe Paterno
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. from Mostly Harmless.Douglas Noel Adams
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.Buddha
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.W. C. Fields
The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.Wilfred Funk
The need to be right - - The sign of a vulgar mind.Albert Camus
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.Swami Sivanada
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.George Bernard Shaw
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - Not their minds.Author Unknown
Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.Lyndon B. Johnson
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.Joseph Addison
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.Dante Alighieri
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.Stella Adle
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.William Penn
You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.Juvenal, Satires
Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.Hellen Kelle
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly... I think - - Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.Henry David Thoreau
A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.Albert Pike
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.R. W. Emerson, Self - Reliance
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.T. S. Eliot
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.Orison Swett Marden
Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.Tom Robbins
A closed mind is a good thing to lose.Anonymous
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten - Foot chain.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald
